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iCTORY
BUY
UNITED
STATES
PKFENSE
T3ONDS
AND
STAMPS
VOLUME NO. LXVI
LABOR SHORTAGE
MAJOR PROBLEM
FACING FARMERS
Type of Farm Operation This
Summer to Depend on
Labor Supply
Expansion Expected in Crops
Where Women and Children
Can Work
Farm operations in* the Bluffton
district this year will be governed in
type and extent by the amount and
quality of available labor supply.
It became increasingly apparent this
week as with the spring tillage seas
on at hand, farmers are making their
plans for the coming year based larg
ely on their estimates of what labor
will be available during the summer.
Women and Children Help
One reason for the increased tomato
acreage is attributed to the fact that
a considerable part of this labor can
be performed by women and children
who were pressed into service during
harvest time last summer.
Supplementing the regular farm la
bor will be high school and college
students, many of whom have express
ed willingness to work on the farm
during the summer, although a large
portion of this labor would be lacking
in experience.
As the labor shortage becomes
creasingly acute marginal land in
creasing amounts is expected to
turned over to grazing.
College Juniors Will
Present “Our Townw
Aggravating"the~ present"situation |^nt of American soldiers, according
is the fact that not only has the res- |to a cablegram received direct from
ervoir of labor been lowered by the Australia by his aunt Mrs. Guy Cor
draft and wartime industry but also |son on Saturday.
because of the demand for increased Sgt. Wilson is the third Bluffton
crops for the war program and inad- I High school graduate reported in
equate machinery’ to make up for the (Australia, word having been received
lost manpower. I from there from Corp. A. R. Holden,
Shortage of labor has resulted in pr., son of Mr. and Mrs A. R. Hold
some reduction of proposed potato len of Toledo, former Bluffton resi
acreage, it was reported the first of I dents, and from Pvt. Emerson Nis
the week. On the other hand, how-I wander son of Mr. and Mrs. Noah
ever, acreage is reported increased for I Niswander of Lawn avenue.
tomatos the growing of which involves
considerable labor.
‘Our Town” Thornton Wilder’s!
Pulitzer prize play, will be presented
by the Bluffton college junior class! Hard surfacing of eight and one
at the Ramseyer chapel this Wednes-| half miles of three Richland township
day night and Saturday night 11 roads, providing materials are avail
8’30 o’clock. able, wiH comprise the major portion
Real Estate Deals
The play is notable for its lack of the township’s road program for
of staging properties. Concentration,] this summer, it was announced the
instead, is on acting, sound effects first of the week by the township trus
and lighting. Four banks of dim-] tees.
mers will be used to obtain the prop-| Work will be under direction of the
er lighting effects. Allen county commissioners with costs
Another unique feature of the play of construction divided between the
is the use of the entire audtorium county and township.
as part of the stage. Curtains never Work will be on stretches of the
close between scenes and it is re-1 Tom Fett, Rockport and Swaney roads
ported that audiences leave the pre-1 which noW are unimproved. Plans
sentation without having noticed the call for laying a tar and stone chip
absence of scenery because of the surface, if materials are available,
theme of the play. Under the program, 3.42 miles of
Cast is as follows: Lora Schultz,] the Rockport road will be improved
John Thutt, Paul Soldner, Lloyd from the Dixie highway to the Na
Hunsberger, Herbert Fretz, Lee Boy-]poleon road.
er, Darvin Luginbuhl, Harold Thies-1
sen, 1----
Ruth Burkhard,
The Portus Hughes farm of 801
acres in Orange township was pur-1
chased by Ray Cook, now’ on the
Seott Whisler farm. Cook will oc-l
cupy the place and Hughes will move
to Findlay.
Levi Hochstettler has purchased
the Mrs. Rosa Hartman property on
Cherry street occupied by Mrs.
tha Matter
Deerhake.
deals were
Births
I On the Tom Fett road
Helen Graber, Donald Hester, stretch is involved from the
2_.12._-2, Grace Geissinger, highway to the Lincoln. Work on the
Esther Geigley, Robert Ramseyer,] Swaney road will be from the South
1 Township Line road to the Dixie high-
David Stearns.
Zitella Getties, Dorothy Becken-1 way, a distance of 1.97 miles,
bach, Lucia Griesser, Adelaide Me-] Total cost of the hard-surfacing
Ginnis, Laurence Burkhalter, Leland] program is estimated at $4,177.57, of
Lehman, Margaret Shelley Ruth (which the county will pay $2,000.
Zuiderhoek. This leaves a balance of $2,177.57 to
be paid from Ricland tow’nship funds.
ment.
Ber.­|
The following births at the Bluff-1 Cherry street Approximately ten
ton hospital: I have registered for the course.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Ernst, Ben-1 Instruction will be given under di
ton Ridge, a girl, Monday. rection of Don Ream, president of
Mr. and Mrs. Loren Redd, Jenera,] the club Nelson Herr, activity man
a girl Thursday. ager F. S. Herr, secretary-treasurer,
Mr. and Mrs Ulysses Reichenbach,! and Maynard Geiger.
a boy, Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Boehm,
Jenera, a boy, Thursday
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Caughman of Palmetto, Florida, a
boy, Don, Monday. Mrs. Caughman] The Bluffton College Vesper choir,
will be remembered here as the form-(under the direction of Prof. Russell
er Lois Swank, daughter of Mr. and I A. Lantz, will present a concert at
Mrs. Arthur Swank of Orange town-I the Ebenezer Mennonite church Sun
ship. Iday night at 7:45 o’clock.
ie
Oldest Resident
To Observe 94th
Birthday Friday
VRS. Elizabeth Parrish, Bluff
1 ton’s oldest resident, will
observe her 94th birthday an
niversary at her home on North
Lawn avenue, Friday. Mrs.
Parrish who was ill during the
winter is reported much improv
ed.
Her daughter, Mrs. Josephine
Carnahan arrived here the first
of the week from Arcadia,
Calif., and expects to spend the
summer here with her mother.
Sgt. Tony Wilson
Now In Australia
Sgt. Carlton “Tony” Wilson has
arrived in Australia with a contin-
THREE TOWNSHIP
ROADS MAY BE
HARD SURFACED
in_ Plan Improvement of Eight and
in-1 One-half Miles of Highways
be This Summer
Work Will be Undertaken
Provided Necessary Ma
terials are Available
Pupils Of Beaverdam School Walk
Out When Teacher Is Not Rehired
Don’t Plant More Than You Can Handle
Local Victory Garden Chairman Urges
a 2.77 mile
Dixie
Total cost of the hard-surfacing
Work on the roads will be done by
the Allen county engineer’ssuch
wmm
Radio Club Will
Start Code ClttSS
The Bluffton Amateur Radio club
has completed arrangements for the
organization of a class of instruc
tion in the international Morse code,
and Mr. and Mrs. Robert The .g ored by
B°J ,v f°rTng American Radio Relay league of
made by H. W. Althaus.| (he )oca) dub an
Classes will start next Monday
night in the club rooms at the rear
of the Menno Geiger residence on
Vesper Choir At
Ebenezer Church
Protest Action of Board in Not
Offering Contract to Bluff
ton Instructor
Classes Resumed Tuesday After
Meeting of Board and
Parents
Beaverdam school which was the
scene of a strike over
when fifty high school
out of classes was
schedule described “as
day.
the week end
pupils walked
operating on
usual”, Tues-
Thursday
that Miss
instructor
and Eng-
The strike flared last
noon when pupils learned
Rita Hankish of Bluffton,
in music, home economics
lish, would not be rehired by the
board of education for the coming
year.
The striking pupils refused to re
turn to class until W. M. Floyd, Al
len county superintendent, assured
them at a general assembly Tuesday
morning that there would be no
punitive measures by members of the
faculty as a result of their walkout.
Parents, Board Meet
The return to classes followed a
meeting of members of the board of
education and interested parents
Monday night, for the purpose of
(Continued on page 8)
Amateurs Urged to Stick to
Easily Grown Garden Truck
Plan on Paper
If you are an inexperienced gardener
don’t let your enthusiasm run away
w’ith your judgment in the size of the
plot you intend to cultivate,
member, said Barnes, that it’s
necessary to do all of the work in
day.
Bluffton
Don’t Let Enthusiasm Run
Away with Judgment, Ad
vises Harry Barnes Bluffton High’s Football and
to
to
Work in moderation, don’t try
cultivate all outdoors and stick
easily grown vegetables, is the adivice
given to amateur gardners by Harry
F. Barnes, chairman of the local Vic
tory Garden committee.
Also re
not
orte
It’s not the size of the garden,
rather the skill with which it
handled that determines the measure
of success, Barnes pointed out.
Suit Crops to Soil
grown
to soil
Where
Type of garden stuffs to be
should be selected with a view
condition and size of the plot,
an attempt is made to cultivate more
than can be properly cared for, fail
ure of the project means a waste of
seed and a hindering of the victory
gardening program.
A steady program of daily attention
to the garden will be productive of far
better results than large amount of
work done intermittently, the garden
ing chairman pointed out.
Recommended for amateur gard
eners are growing of green onions,
lettuce, radishes, beets, peas, string
beans, carrots, cabbage, tomatoes and
celery. These are suited to small
plots of ground and provide a maxi
mum yield for space and labor re
quired, Barnes said.
For Experienced Hands
Your amateur gardener is advised
to stay away from crops as po
tatoes, cotai and melons. These all
require more room than town condi
tions generally warrant. In addition
there are soil factors which only an
experienced grower understands, it
was sated.
depart-
Another item to be remembered is
importance of planning the garden
on paper before it actually is planted.
The time and rate of planting for
each vegetable should be arranged so
as to provide a continuous supply for
consumption throughout the growing
season and also for storage and can
ning purposes. Sample garden plans
(Continued on page 8)
Girl Reserves Will
Give P.T. A. Program
Every member of the Girl Reserves
organization of Bluffton High school
will have a part in the program of
the Parent Teachers association to be
held in the high school auditorium
Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock.
Musical numbers, short plays and
readings by the members will consti
tute the program. Arrangements are
being made under the direction of
Carol Bame, president, and Mrs. Ken
neth Luginbuhl, club adviser.
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INT ERESTS OF I BLUFFTON AN VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY.
classes.
but
is
The
it WM predicte.1 by
APr|l
I0G MARKET TOP
The market which has been stead
ily rising opened Wednesday morning
twenty cents above Tuesday’s close.
The top figure isjbeing paid for a
wide range of header hogs, ranging]
SCHOOL BUSES ARE
DENIED ATHLETES
FOR GAME TRIPS
Basketball Program May
Be Modified
9, 1942
Prices Paid Here Wednesday have brought spring tillage on
Morning Unequalled Since fanrs to a standstill.
1926, Says Dealer I With water standing in fields,
farmers stated Wednesday morning
I that there was little prospect of out-
’op Quotation overs Wide|door work this week. Oats seeding,
Range of Heavier Hogs- I interruPted by rains, cannot be re
Sales Volume Good ?efore even rains
I stop, they said.
I Because of rains this spring and
Hogs sold on the Bluffton market] unfavorab,e weather conditions farm
Wednesday brought the highest] ers in Bluffton vicinity who have
prices sixteen years when a top| maPle sugar camps have abandoned
of $13.50 per hundred pounds was| plans to °PCrate this spring altho
quoted. Livestock men checked back tho prlce of maPle s-vruP is the
over old records and announced that I in recent years.
not since 1926 has ths figure been
equalled.
from 190 to 300 pounds. This is un| B*88 and Crappies are Reported I
unusually large spread for a top| Biting Well at Large Na
price, market men pointed out. tional Quarry
With last fall’s if pigs now
beginning to appear on
the volume of sales is
increase materially by
part of the month.
ederal Tire Rationing Regula
tion Places Limitation on
Use of Buses
the market.!
expected to I Bluffton Anglers are Unusually
I Successful in Fishing Over
Week End
of the record
One
Schools may still be permitted to] bass averaged from
use buses having tires purchased be-1 pounds.
fore the program was inaugurated in] 1° one daY s fishing, Jesse Manges
December but tire rationing head-1 caught five bass and five
quarters are 1
the use of such buses for the trans
portation of athletic teams, accord
ing to an announcement Wednesday
morning.
h. r.
send, state high school athletic com
missioner, that the federal ruling
would curtail next season’s football
and basketball play to a great extent
and will hit the class schools
particularly hard. Bluffton is a
class school. The larger schools
will likely be able to operate on
schedule by the use of railroad fa
cilities, the commissioner pointed
out.
Practically all of the 500 football
playing schools and the 1154 par
ticipating in basketball have been
using buses to transport teams and!
students to and from games and I
Longsdort Ke-hired
Pgr Three Year Term!
A. J. B. Longsdorf, administrative
head of the Bluffton public schools
for the past 17 years, was re-hired
as superintendent of schools
three-year term at a meeting
board of education Monday
The salary wll be $2,800.
for a
of the
night.
With the teacher tenure law now
in operation all of the teachers will
continue in their positions under the
continuing contract arrangement.
There were no resignations an
nounced at the board meeting.
Miss Vera Welty of Barberton
spent Easter with friends and rel
atives here.
quarry so far this season. Phillips'
1 to 2
trying to discourage] borne of the ciappies were 12 inches
weighed
final decision will be in the I ^ve bass and four crappies,
news
Heavy Rains Inundate Fields And
(13.50 IS HIGHEST Bring SprinE "°rk To StamWi11
N SIXTEEN YEARS
Heavy rains which fell in almost
continuous downpour Monday night
and Tuesday flooding fields and high-
Early Season Fishing Popular As
Large Catches Are Reported Here
fish
was
fish-
Bass and crappies have been bitingI1
avidly and anglers
tricks of the trade
than usual success
quarry.
channel catfish weighing
A
six and one-quarter pounds and
measuring 2412 inches was
caught in the National quarry by
Robert Scoles of Cherry street,
Tuesday afternoon with night
crawlers for bait. The fish is
believed by local anglers to be a
record catch at the quarry.
Drastic modifica’Am of Bluffton
High school’s football and basketball
program next year and for the dura
tion of the war was seen today fol-1
lowing a federal tire rationing reg-] ploy® of the Central Ohio Light and
ulation limiting the use of school] Dower Co., who has landed 16 bass
buses to transporting students to| and one channel catfish from the!
and from
crappies.
in length and the bass
around two pounds each.
Among other good catches were
those of the following: C. E. Greiner,
hands of the local board of educa-1 Root, two bass and two crappies,
tion.
H. o
ministrator, that although the rul-|bass and one crappie,
ing does not apply to buses using] Minnows and so t-she cray s
old tires, "such buses would be vio- Pr''ed the best bait for anglers try-|
lating both the rubber conservation "'S their luck over the weekend,
program aims and the spirit of the! F“r scvc'ral thc °',d Natona
federal ruling, if used for excursions! "ow by the Central
of any kind or the transporting ofl Chio Light and ower ., as ecu. liviliifl
athletes” I a P°l)U^ar fishing spot and this year!
Edgai11
It was stated, however, by I Hally, of eaver *m’ a 2|js now being reflected in enrollment
Beckman, Ohio rationing ad-|Poaad and Morns Kohli one|
With less country pupils to gath
er than was the case previously,
four buses can handle the situation,
it was reported by Supt. A. J. B.
a popular fishing spot and this year!
catches have been better than ini
past seasons. I
Towit-I“td,“ h*w be“cr than in
June 16 marks the opening of the
bass season following spring spawn
Fishing for bass in the inland
I district is closed from
tournaments, it was pointed out. I june jg
“So far as we can see now,” state!
.I On opening of the
tire rationing coordinator Inwood I
1-u fishing, limits set up
Smith said, “there is little likelihood
x, x, n u -i I prohibit more
that the order will be modified. I ■.
May 1 until
I being taken any one day during! by Dr.
i r» t. i the 1942 season. Health
Fishing rights for the National,] Bluffton
Buckeye and Water Works quarries] It is
Faculty Members On
WLOK Broadcast
Lima Pastor Will
Speak At Vespers
“The Church in a Warring World”
is the subject of an address to be
given by the Rev. Simon M. Da vid
ian, pastor of the Central Church of
Christ of Lima, at the Bluffton
college Vesper service to be held in
Ramseyer chapel Sunday afternoon
at 3 o’clock.
Also on the program will be two
vested choirs from the church of
which the speaker is the pastor. A
children’s choir of 60 voices and a
high school girls’ choir of 22 voices
will also appear on the program.
The choirs are under the direction
of Miss Alice Rossfeld, instructor in
public school ipusic in Lima.
IfilUI V CAIIO DIICUC
UR LI lUUll DUdtu
WILL BE USED BY
SCHOOL NEXT YEAR
Present Five Routes Will
Merged Into Four, Board
Decides
Unusually good early season
ing in the old National quarry
reported this week by Bluffton
ernien lured into action by sustained I Smaller School Enrollment
spring-like weather prevailing over] Ruraj Area and Larger
the weekend.
x, u i i u. Loads, foreseen
who know the!
have had more]
at the larrel Re”ecting reduced school enroll-
catches was re-1
ported by William T. Phillips, em-
be
in
I ments, only four buses will be oper
I ated by the Bluffton public schools
next year over the rural routes
served this year by five buses, ac
cording to a decision of the Bluffton
board of education at
Monday night.
its meeting
of Jerome
end of the
With the resignation
Herr, effective at the
present school year the remaining
I four bus drivers will be used on the
re-routing, it wras stated. Herr ex
pects to be drafted into the army
soon. Re-hired for another year
were: Francis Basinger, Aaron
Messinger, Walter Sommer and
Eldon Tschiegg.
The new arrangement will enable
a saving in money by the
tion of the upkeep for the
the salary of the driver,
tion of the extra bus has
been decided upon by the board.
Longsdorf.
are controlled by the Sportsmen’s! receiving the immunization have writ
club, and under the direction of the| ten permission from their parents,
organization
water have
blue gills,
catfish.
elimina
bus and
Disposi
not yet
The trend in school enrollment in
both the town and rural areas has
been steadily downward for the past
I several years. During the depres
sion of the early thirties families
TA ,, o.’I were much smaller, which situation
LjOCnCZCr iirOCUK U-Sl
Fishing rights in the quarry are! A program by the Women’s chorus
controlled by the Bluffton Commun-| of the Ebenezer Mennonite church
ity Sportsmen’s club. I'
is available to anyone in the district| broadcast over Findlay station W FIN
for one dollar
Over WFIN Friday
Membership! WJj]] be presented in the weekly radio
per year. (Friday night at 7:15 o’clock.
the Bluffton \\ater[ The cborus is under the direction
A quartet
Opening of
Works quarry for fishing has been! of Miss Mabei Amstutz.
postponed until June 16, at the re-1 compoSed of Mrs. Eldon Tschiegg.
quest of the state conservation del Mrs WatSon Steiner, Mrs. Albert
partment, Silas Diller, president fl I)iller and Miss Ida Winkler will
the Sportsmen’s club announced this! sing «.Ig Your A!1 on tbe Altar?” by
week. Hoffman.
Immunization Of
Pupils This Week
water works! About half of the Bluffton public
set up by the club! school students will be immunized for
than 10 assorted fish! diphtheria and smallpox this week
Gail Miller, Allen Cotinty
Commissioner, assisted by
doctors.
necessary that all students
the three bodies of I About half of the students brought
been stocked with bass,I written permits to the 'school. There
crappies, and channel! is no charge for the treatment.
Piano solos by Pearl Bogart Mann I office every Thursday from 11:45
and violin solos by Prof. Sidney!a- to
Hauenstein, of the Bluffton college] the first
music faculty will be presented on I Pose of
the college broadcast over Lima st a-I the ages
tion WLOK Thursday night at 9:3ol teres ted
o’clock. I ’n the navy or naval reserve.
Recruiting Officer
To Be Here Weekly
E. M. Schwartz, navy recruiting
officer, will be at the Bluffton post
1 p. m., it was announced
of the week, for the pur
interviewing men between
of 17 to 50 who are in
in applying for enlistment
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NUMBER 50
BIG PROGRAM OF
BUILDING REPAIR
FOR THIS SUMMER
Emphasis to be on Barns and
On
Residential Re-model
ing and Repairing
Some New Residences Will be
Built Can Still Get Criti
cal Materials
With emphasis on the construction
of farm buildings and
ing and repairing of
dences, appearance of
of building activity
three years is anticipated this sea
son, according to .opinions expressed
by local carpenters and building
supply dealers the first of the week.
the re-model
existing resi
a new’ phase
of the past
Although it is known definitely
that several new residences will be
started this spring, the
ing emphasis will not
type of construction as
building seasons, it was
major build
be on this
in the past
stated.
Work Booked Ahead
Carpenters here have reported
that they have more work booked
ahead than they had last year at
this time. Complicating the building
situation here is the fact that many
of the younger carpenters will be
called in the draft and in addition
have been obtaining employment in
defense industries.
All necessary materials can be
obtained for new residential con
struction if ordered in time, it was
revealed following a survey of build
ing supply dealers in the community.
The supply
adequate to meet
was stated.
entirely
here, it
of lumber is
the needs
Materials
difficulty
Plumbing
The greatest
countered in
supplies and piping,
particularly to new
terials in residences where the used
items are still serviceable, it was re
ported.
i On new residential construction,
is en-
obtaining plumbing
This applies
plumbing ma-
the metal materials. Wire can still
be obtained for electrical servicing.
It is specially urgent that these
items be ordered in advance if new
construction is contemplated, it was
pointed out.
Defense Area
Also aiding the local construction
program is the fact that Allen
County has been designated as a
defense area by the Federal Hous
ing Authority which gives residents
here an advantage in securing cer
tain critical materials.
Not only must residents anticipate
their building needs in sufficient
time, dealers must also plan ahead
in the purchase of building ma
terials as it is impossible to obtain
carload lots of single items
the case in the past.
as was
already
farming
have
the
reflection of
A number of barns
been contracted for in
community which is a
the increased income farmers here
are receiving as the result of the
war time stimulation for agricultural
products.
Stations Of Draftees
Announced By Army
Present stations of Bluffton area
draftees recently inducted into the
army were learned this week in a
release from the reception center at
Camp Perry.
Edward Schumacher, of Bluffton,
inducted last Saturday, was sent to
Fort Francis E. Warren, in Wyom
ing.
Among those who also left here
last week were James Benroth, now
at Ft. Benjamin Harrson, Indian
apolis, Ind., and Edwin Rice, who
was sent to Texas.
Area men at Camp Hulen, near
Paklcios, Texas, are Ralph D.
IBdwriMtzer, Bluffton Rural route
Gideon P. Steiner, Jr., Mt. Cory, and
Ronald L. Albert, Lafayette.
Robert Diller Will
Preach At Alliance
Rev. Robert Diller, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Noah Diller of Jackson street,
has accepted a call from the Alliance
Evangelical and Reformed church,
effective May I.
He has been pastor of the Evan
gelical and Reformed church at Pros
pect. He graduated from Bluffton
High school in the class of 1929 and
later attended Heidelberg college at
Tiffin and Eden Seminary at St.
Louis.